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With Easter coming up, I thought I'd go with an egg metaphor. If jiu-jitsu is Humpty Dumpty, I'm still looking for all the pieces. We'll see about putting it all together again... Here are my little pieces from the last few weeks:
1. When breaking guard, immediately pop up the knee that was in the butt. Before passing, drop that knee over their thigh to lock it down.
2. When starting from knees, grab low on their pants with your opposite hand, then grab their collar on the same side that you're grabbing their pants, with your same side hand. Pull or hold the pants, push with the collar hand. Keep your knee opposite the leg you've grabbed out of the way.
3. To sweep in spider guard: If your right foot is in their elbow, put your left foot on their hip. Get on your left side, kick their right knee/foot out of the way while pushing with your right foot, hopefully ending up in mount.
4. When fighting for position, lead with your hips, then bring your legs/arms around to lock it in.
5. When getting choked by someone who has your back, turn your chin into their elbow, then kill the leg that you are backing into. Push your way out the back.We pulled out the camcorder at open mat the other day. I learned something about myself: I grin like a mule eating briars when I'm rolling. I look like the village idiot, grinning from ear to ear as I'm getting squashed. Also, we really need to invest in a tripod. These videos are ridiculously shaky, and asking my kids to be the photographer is risky for the camera and the movie. Also just ridiculous.
I have given my sneak attack side-control escape as many chances for surprise as it will take. It's the Jail Break! Which is hilarious to me because I keep trying to call it the jail bait. It works perfectly on the 14 year old yellow/white belt who has 50 lbs on me, not so well on the purple belt who has 3 pounds on me. I was really hoping to get it to work on the purple belt. Alas, there is no room to sneak my hand in, and I'm not really at the point in my training where I will jam my hand in there until I get what I'm after. Here's the video:
I just went straight to full guard from here, but I think I need to look into some butterfly guard sweeps. Anyone have any experience with those? Tips to offer?
In other news, Rosemary started crawling Saturday at open mat. Is there a milestone she won't hit on the mats??? My mother used to tell stories about setting a bottle on the other side of the room to give my sister incentive to crawl. Rosemary was after the focus mitts. Heh heh heh...
